The UK micromouse competition is held in the ThinkTank lecture theatre and is organised by Birmingham City University. There is also generous sponsorship from Phaedrus Systems, Microchip and PCB-Pool. This photo set was taken by JA Graphics.
Here is the first set of photos from the 2009 UK micromouse competition held in Birmingham on June 27th. These photos are taken by me and there are not very many because I was pretty busy.
The results of the 2009 UK micromouse competition are now available. Also posted here are the results of some of the allied competitions – the wall followers and the time trials. [Updated 19 Jul 2009 to correct an error in the tables]
The UK Micromouse championships were held at the Technology innovation Centre in Birmingham on Saturday June 27th. A good number of mice ran this year, some for the first time. The morning practice was a nerve-wracking affair which looked like it would result in another win by MouseX. However, a couple of mechanical repairs, some software tweaks and an unusually fortunate maze configuration saw a new champion emerge…
It was all getting too awkward. A bit of short sighted design on my part had the Nokia LCD sharing an SPI port with the motor encoders. This meant that I had to turn off the encoders to write to the LCD. While no motion information would be lost by doing this, it effectively meant that I could not, for example, have the mouse hold position while updating the display. In the end I took it all apart and patched the circuit board so that the LCD is now driven from the SPI1 port and the encoders are on the SPI2 port.